What Preps are you doing this week? Part 8.

[diamond lil]

Oh good thinking Jansman I forgot about cat food. Beeglie would not be amused. Well she seldom is, really..

[hobo]

Spent an hour today sorting batteries for emergency lighting, torches etc…

Recharging batteries time of year for me!

[Arzosah]

Oh good thinking Jansman I forgot about cat food. Beeglie would not be amused. Well she seldom is, really..

It's very rare that I miss a "like" button on here, but I do today

[jansman]

Oh good thinking Jansman I forgot about cat food. Beeglie would not be amused. Well she seldom is, really..

We have a sign on the kitchen door. “ If you want the most comfortable seat in the house, move the dog.” In your case, the cat!

[jansman]

Spent an hour today sorting batteries for emergency lighting, torches etc…

Recharging batteries time of year for me!

Thanks for that post hobo. I noticed we were short on AAA and AA batteries. I have loads of rechargeable batteries, and solar chargers too, so no excuse. I am on it!

[peejay]

Oh good thinking Jansman I forgot about cat food. Beeglie would not be amused. Well she seldom is, really..

I don't know if you've heard of "Grumpy Cat" going viral for a few years (sadly now passed) but your Beeglie looks like she could be a dead-ringer for taking over the reigns!

https://www.google.com/search?q=grumpy+ ... 60&bih=797

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grumpy_Cat

[diamond lil]

Gawd she's bad enough with the attitude, I'm not telling her this.

[jennyjj01]

Drat. NO WATER. Well, barely a trickle.

Currently having a sampler of a water outage. Cold tap running at a slow trickle and not enough pressure for the boiler, shower or washing machine. Checking United Utilities, it seems a mile wide issue at least. They were good enough to send automated robo call to apologise, but no estimate for repair time.

Oh hum. All good as a learning experience/practice. Last similar outage lasted about 24 hours.

The good news is that it was only yesterday that I bottled 5l of beer and 5l of Italian Red wine. So we we won't go thirsty. That also left me with some 50 litres or so of chlorinated but tainted water that I was washing my equipment with. That's before I consider the few hundred litres of bottled water in stash hidey hole. Nooooo. Thirst not an issue even if it's the start of a protracted outage.

But it is mildly irritating that today is wash day* and not having a hot shower, or indeed anything really to wash ourselves or clothes with.

Immediate action plan:-
1) Reported it. Being a secondary report seemed to up it's status on their web site. Assume they'll fix it pronto and don't panic.
2) Bring a few 5l bottles into the kitchen for family reassurance.
3) Check in with elderly parent a few miles away. Partly for her benefit, and partly to prepare a fall back wash and brush up location.
4) Pop the kettle on.
5) Slightly contentious bit. Out shopping today. Will pick up a few more 5l bottles from Tesco. And lots of paper plates.
6) Start a new wine kit

* Remembered seeing on tv's 'How' that astronauts on the ISS wear their pants for a week and one guy grew tomatoes in his.

[peejay]

I have a few packs of body wipes for emergency washing if needed though to be truthful I'm not actually sure exactly where I've stashed them right now so definitely worth me refreshing my memory...

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Clinell-CBC60- ... 398&sr=8-6

[jennyjj01]

I have a few packs of body wipes for emergency washing

Good plan. I'd never thought of that. There are 'Bed bath' wipes on amazon. One to research for price point.
It did remind me to get paper plates and daft as it sounds, some extra knicks.

Water is still off.